Welcome to the website of the English Language Support Programme.

Over 6,100 pages of activities in PDF format linked to curricular subjects and examinations ... and growing

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This website has been designed for use in post-primary schools by learning support, language support and mainstream subject teachers, and their students. The resources and activities have been designed to help all students access post-primary curriculum subjects, both junior and senior cycles. There are also resources to help teachers prepare their students for public examination.
All resources and classroom activities may be downloaded and printed. Activities are suitable for classroom use, homework and self-study.

Though primarily designed for newcomer learners of English, the Language Support Activity Units and other activities on this site are equally suited to the needs of all students as they encourage both subject and language learning. The Activity Units are designed to help students achieve by building new knowledge on that which is already clear, comprehensible, and familiar to them (more...)

What's new?

Please help us to understand how you use our materials - take 5 mins to fill in our questionnaire on how you use the Language Support Activity Units.

We are delighted to announce that we have included Lesson Plans for Junior Certificate subjects

english language award The ELSP won the 2009 European Award for Languages - click here for details

Jury's comments "Feedback from involved teachers very positive about motivation of students and this is motivating for teachers...Very impressed with project...Valuable idea transferable to e.g. Gaelscoileanna."

Free Cd label Copies of our free CD containing this website and many units have been sent out to over 450 schools nationwide in 2009. If you would still like to order a copy contact lyonsdz@tcd.ie

Click here for a Report into English Language Support in Irish Post-Primary Schools - Policy, challenges and deficits (pdf format)

newly added The development of new Language Support Activity Units is on-going and more Leaving and Junior Certificate Units will be added. Watch this space!

coming soon Whole School approaches for language support.

Study
Remember, these units are further supplemented with a wide range of appropriate language learning and self-study activities suitable for post-primary students to do individually, in pairs or in small groups.
We again acknowledge Gill & Macmillan for their permission to reproduce certain short texts in some of these Units.

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	English Language Support Programme, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland The English Language Support Programme is part of the Trinity Immigration Initiative (funded by AIB)